The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-03-17

During the year 1885 thirty Six
telegraph Offices were opened in China.
President Cleveland will celebrate
bis fiftieth birthday on March 18th, while
his wife will be twenty.three years old in
July. His mother.in.law is forty.four.
"A son of Senator Patterson, the
famous carpet-bagger of South Carolina,
is an inmate of the Tombs prison, New
York, awaiting trial for having swindled
man out of the sum of FIVE dollars.
The republicans in congress have
voted solidly against every negro DEM
ocrat appointment made by the president.
This shows how much the republicans
love the colored man for the sake of his
color.
On the 9th, at Rockport, N. Y, A. T.
Sweedly and Mrs. Annie Graves we're
married by the Rev. Mr.. Eddy at the
brides home. The groom is 80 years of
age and the bride 70. Mr.. Sweedly has
been married before.
1t may not be known, but it is
nevertheless a worthy compliment, that
Solicitor Orr was presented some time
since with beautiful silver service by
the Hebrews of this country, for his ad-
mirable conduct Of the Ferguson case at
Abbeville.
The third of next July will be the
24th anniversary of Pickett's charge at
Gettysburg. On that day the survivors
of Pickett's command will meet at Get.
tysburg, where they will be welcomed
and entertained by the survivors of Elan.
cocks corps.
= The New Orleans Picayune, anent
the rival cotton seed oil companies,
intimates that should the consumption of
oil increase in the future as in the past,
the day may come when tho cotton plant
will be cultivated for the seed alone. We
should prefer to see planters untilize
their own seed in fertilizing their farms.
The prohibitionists having secured
from the State legislature of Texas sub.
mission to the people of a prohibition
amendment to the State constitution, are
making preparations for the campaign.
The State will be filled with temperance
orators for which fund of $4,000 has
been gathered.
An agent for safe company several
months ago made sales in Bad Ak, Mich.
A few weeks ago an agent for another
company came along, and, according to
the local newspaper, by the aid of q jack
knife and gimlet, proved to the safe
buyers that their safes had a lining of
wood, a filling of clay and covering Of
thin sheet iron.
= Every day or so We read sensible
articles in the papers begging women, for
the sake of their health of mind and body
to wear common sense shoes with flat
heels. Then we go upon the streets and
see how nine women in ten cramp their
feet, defiant of sense or sensibility. If
lovers had to accept woman's foot
instead of her hand, love might die at the
exhibit.
One of the vigorous women of her
age in the country is Mrs. Priscilla
Goodsell, of Redding, Conn, who has
just celebrated her one hundredth birth.
day. She walks about unaided, and her
mind is apparently as vigorous IS ever.
Another hale old person is Capt. Wm.
Jack Haynes, of st. Louis, who was with
Jackson at New Orleans, and expects To
celebrate his centennial birthday next
fall.
= The use of the gall of rattlesnakes
is warmly urged by NJ. Koscicky, Of
Austria, as an antidote for snake bites.
M. Kosclcky. who became acquainted
with the antidote in Venezuleln, declares
il to be both inexpensive and effective, as
we'll as instantaneous in its operation,
crows and dogs in the last stage of the
poison recovering Immediately on the
remedy being administered to them.
= Who would have supposed that
print cloths made in South Carolina
would be used by the American Printing
Company in this city? Yet such is the
fact 1t is heavy cloth that is called for
in the trade, therefore it must be used.
One of the mills in the city is now pre-.
pairing to make this class of goods, of
which none is made here at present. The
weight of the cloth is four yards to q
pound.-EaN Rtver News.
= Gen. Robert @. Schenck tells how
be cured his Bright's disease: "For more
than a month l lived solely on milk,
averaging about five pints a day. Not
even a crumb of bread in it. Then I
added to it some finely chopped onions.
For month more the diet was onions
and milk. I ate no beef food whatever.
When l found myself slipping back, the
onion accompaniment was abandoned,
and back to milk alone I went again.
Eventually overcame the trouble,
wholly recovered and have had no recur-
renee of the malady SINCE"
The total number of retail liquor
licenses issued in Alabama last year,
exclusive of those in Mobile, was 538.
In six counties only one was issued, in
four counties two were issued, in three
counties three we're issued and in ten
counties four were issued. In seven
counties in which seventy licenses were
issued last year prohibition will prevail
hereafter. It is highly probable that Che
entire number of saloons in the State,
outside of Mobile, will be less than three
hundred this year.
The New Orleans Southwestern
Christian Advocate, a newspaper for ne.
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